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Kostia Gorobets

@kostiagorobets.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at the University of Groningen. Jurisprudence, international law, books. Working on a project about Russia’s alternative international law.

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Swords United" meme, where on the table is the quoted tween and the knights are labled "Pragmatists", "Hume", "Kant", "The Vienna Circle", "Ordinary Language Philosophers"
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility."🔥
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 02/10/2026
wouldn’t have predicted catholicism as one of the big allies in the fight against ai, but i’m here for it
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Russia is preparing for the war in Ukraine to continue for years by planning record war spending, abandoning plans to rein in military outlays - Bloomberg "Russia wants peace" crowd has anything to add? Russia doesn't want peace, it wants Ukraine to surrender.
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i don't want a fully customizable experience. i want an experience i couldn't have thought up at all. i want an experience i'm not smart enough or creative enough to specify in advance. i want to be surprised
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 30/09/2026
“Putin has gone even crazier,” a senior Ukrainian official told The Economist. “He ordered attacks on everything civilian. They want people to be afraid of going to the supermarket.” www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
economist.com
Putin’s new bombardment of Kyiv has a terrible logic
A Russian terror campaign aims to cripple the capital even before winter hits
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The decline of Reform — and the fragmentation of the far right — should be a major news story too. But most media barely care… More evidence that media are not “just reporting the news” but are actively shaping it. With significant political consequences.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 28/09/2026
Russian strike against the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Academy of Sciences in Kyiv 🙏🇺🇦
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Jeffry Bazooka @jeffrybazooka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How ironic that someday we may see Russian soldiers marching over the Kerch Bridge to leave Crimea, just as we witnessed Russian soldiers marching over a bridge to leave Afghanistan. I hope I live that long.
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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For context: Palantir isn't named that because he's a Tolkien fan. It's because he's a fan of the uber-reddit Russian fanfic "The Last Ringbearer" which recast Sauron as a progressive industrializing force.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People in Oleshky have no food and are surviving on grass and weeds, a desperate measure that won't even be an option in the winter. Real pressure must be applied to Russia to allow people to evacuate!
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My Neighbour Totoro is the most perfect animated film ever made. Each time I watch it, it’s such a blast of joy!
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🇺🇦 Ukrainian Charitable Initiatives: From Military Donations to Human Rights Protection They not only raise funds within Ukraine, but also secure international support ranging from individual donors to foreign governments. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/ukrainian-ch...
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Ukrainian Charitable Initiatives: From Military Donations to Human Rights Protection | The Ukrainian Review
Ukrainian charitable foundations play a major role in collecting funds to strengthen Ukraine's defense sector and ensure civilian safety. The Ukrainian Review team looked into three key areas of Ukrai...
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 24/09/2026
When you’re so anti-imperialist that you think only Westerners have agency. Greetings from the Baltic countries, by the way. Do us next. In that same period, the Baltics achieved some of the highest levels of human freedoms and fastest growth in the world.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please share the information about Oleshky everywhere you can! ​Russia is starving residents of the town and nearby villages by denying food supplies and evacuation. People in Oleshky need help, or else they won't survive the winter!
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Man Says 'We Made It Up' Meme
ALT: Man Says 'We Made It Up' Meme
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This didn't happen. What actually happened is that Russia deliberately bombed several American businesses in Ukraine. ​The Bunge oilseed plant was hit right after Senator Blumenthal's visit in a twisted demonstration of power.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just joining the Russian economic sphere I guess.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 19/09/2026
⚡ Russian forces have committed widespread sexual violence in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, according to a new UN report. kyivindependent.com/abhorrent-ac...
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'Abhorrent acts' - Russian forces committed widespread sexual violence in Ukraine since full-scale invasion, UN reports
Russian forces are responsible for the vast majority of sexual violence in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced in a new report.
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Jake Peralta's Cool Copshow Reaction
ALT: Jake Peralta's Cool Copshow Reaction
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wow, hard to believe it, but it is solved! Thank everyone!
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The story of how Nestle and Auchan refused to leave Russia in 2022, only for Putin to eventually seize their businesses with a single stroke of the pen, deserves to be told by sages as a biblical parable.
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Folks, I have a super-niche request. If anyone for whatever reason has access to (or a physical copy of) 2026 edition of Valery Zorkin's Law against Chaos (Право против хаоса), please DM! So far, I haven't even found it via ILL requests (which is kind of understandable).
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Introvert at party meme with pontiff regalia
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Folks, I have a super-niche request. If anyone for whatever reason has access to (or a physical copy of) 2026 edition of Valery Zorkin's Law against Chaos (Право против хаоса), please DM! So far, I haven't even found it via ILL requests (which is kind of understandable).
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jess Whyte and I wrote on the shifting mix btw persuasion and coercion in monetary hierarchy and the effects of this shift on the legal forms of the dollar. TLDR: soft law, IL and legal cooperation are replaced by executive orders and tweets. It's open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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From Dollar Hegemony to Dollar Dominance - Law and Critique
This article describes and diagnoses a major shift in the modalities, uses and legal forms of the international role of the US dollar. Drawing from the work of Ranajit Guha, we argue that the balance ...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/09/2026
has anyone noticed the days are getting shorter?? what exactly is the plan when we're all engulfed in eternal darkness
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
girl, same
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jk Rowling naming russian oligarchs
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/09/2026
Nothing says “America First” like having Moscow sponsor the open bar.
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New “no vehicles in the park” just dropped
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-wheels...
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The Wheels Are Coming Off
It Can Only Good Happen
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Kushner claims there’s a peace deal if only Ukr withdrew from Donbas. Thats not true. Ru wants Ukr withdrawal as the condition to begin peace talks not to end the war. Ru has not agreed to a single thing Ukr wants: NATO membership, peacekeeping troops, reparations, return of kidnapped children, etc.
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B Allen Scoop (Vote Democrat) @thescoop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And why the fuck should Ukraine do that?
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Your robber laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If you, you know, wanted to give him your possessions, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. But right now you do not want to do that.”
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I just can’t anymore. Ask Putin to stop the war? Noooo, dear friend Vladimir does nothing wrong, it’s Ukraine that is a nuisance. Messed up the whole Middle East for decades to come? Blame Ukraine!
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
assistant is lowercase for predoc like it's a cute little baby assistant
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We’re entering another winter of Russian terror, bankrolled at large by surging oil prices from the war in Iran. After starting a war with no plan, they now blame us for the very crisis they created, the very same that will cost more of our lives this winter.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump: “Putin is wanting to make a deal, and if Zelenskyy is wanting to make a deal, that’d be very nice. The hold-up is two people that hate each other.” Yes, they both want a deal, but not the same kind: Putin demands Ukraine’s total surrender, while Zelensky seeks a lasting, just peace
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am sorry but WHAT and HOW does it look like it is going to be amazing
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Trump regime’s communication to Russia on the war in Ukraine is, and has always been, “we’ll make it easier for you, so keep going, you can win.” Whatever words come out of Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff’s mouths, that’s the message their actions send, and that is how the Kremlin has received it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fresh off failing to end the Iran war, secure any concessions, or even make US surrender stick, and riding on the apparent, deepening failure of their Gaza plan, Jared and Steve head to Moscow to resume their failing effort to get Ukraine to bow down to Putin and reward Russia for its aggression.
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Trump envoys arrive in Moscow ahead of Ukraine talks
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due to hold talks with Russia before travelling to Ukraine on Sunday.
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This rhymes so perfectly with Russia’s rhetoric regarding Ukraine since at least 2005. Dismissing it as just a political noise may eventually turn out to be a grave mistake.
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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What a jerk
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As I predicted when Ukraine began striking Russian refineries, Trump is going to blame Ukraine for gas prices & begin to pressure them to stop doing it. Once again, the US will side with Putin against a country fighting for its survival. We’re morally bankrupt under Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 01/09/2026
We have started a new symposium engaging with Monica Hakimi's critique of sovereigntism in international law. KOSTIA GOROBETS and ANDREA CARCANO introduce the debate. verfassungsblog.de/internationa...
we aim to join Professor Hakimi in trying to see through and beyond the sovereigntist model of international law and imagining alternative frames about the existence, efficacy, and justifiability of international law.
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